@article{ref1,
title="Prototypes of victims of workplace harassment",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2024",
author="Ziano, Ignazio and Polman, Evan",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="What do people think of when they think of workplace harassment? In 13 pre-registered studies with French, British, and U.S. American adult participants (N = 3,892), we conducted a multi-method investigation into people's social prototypes of victims of workplace harassment. We found people imagined such victims in physically, socially, psychologically, and economically different ways compared with non-victims: for example, as less attractive, more introverted, and paid less. In addition, we found ambiguous harassment leveled against a prototypical (vs. non-prototypical) victim was more likely to be classified as harassment, and perceived to cause the victim more psychological pain. As such, both lay-people and professionals wanted to punish harassers of victims who &quot;fit the prototype&quot; more. Notably, providing people with instructions to ignore a victim's personal description and instead assess the harassment behavior did not reduce the prototype effect.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/01461672241235388",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672241235388"
}